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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-04-23
The Ruddy River

of life is the blood From it the system
receives all its material of growth ard re-
pair. 1t bathes every tissue of the body
How necessary, then, the blood should be
kept pure and rich DIR. Pierce's "Gold-
en- Medical Discovery is the great blood
food and blood purifier. 1t is sovereign
remedy for all diseases due TO impoverishd
blood, consumption, bronchitis, weak
lungs, scrorula, influenza, and kindred
diseases.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-04-23

EVEN THE Fowls LISTEN TO THE
News IN THE INDEPENDENTS Last
Monday our genial friend Mr.. Ephraim
Smith, came into this Office with small
box in which gently reclined an egg of
remarkable shape. Thereon hangs a
tale. Mr.. Smith was reading aloud
from the INDEPENDENT, on his back
porch Sunday. He noticed an aged and
respectable old hen crane her neck and
assume an attitude of breathless inter-
est. When the notice of Forepaugh's
circus was read, she smiled loud
"cluck'' and scampered into the hen
merry. About noon, Mr.. Smith heard
an unusual clatter in the chicken house,
and went out on a voyage of investiga-
tion. Imagine his surprise when upon
looking in the nest he saw an egg in
the exact image of small elephant.
This is the egg he leaves at this office.
The wisdom of the old hen is to be
applauded. She thought she would
hatch the little elephant out for Fore
paugh, and thereby put money in her
masters pocket. Kind reader, we have
a small item in this issue about gold
dollars. Be sure and read it in the
presence of your chickens, and if they
have half the common sense of Mr..
Smiths old speckled hen. you will not
have to work any more.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-04-23

"To DISCONTINUE an advertise
ment," says John Wanamaker, sis like
taking down your sign. If you want
to do business, you must let the people
know it. Standing advertisements,
when changed frequently, are better
and cheaper than reading notices. They
look more substantial and business like,
and inspire confidence. would as
soon think of doing business without
clerks as without Advertising"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-04-23

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission, lin replying to numerous
queries, explains the intentions of
the bill regulating traffic, and shows
that the commission has no discre-
tionary power, except under the
long and short haul clause, but must
decide questions as they arse in bus
mess.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-04-23

Watt and Schwartz, the brakemen
who murdered Express Messenger
Nichols on Rock Island train, were
convicted, and sentenced to imprts-
.onment in the Illinois State Prison
for Life.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-04-23
BuokIen's Arnica saIye.

The BEST SAWS In the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores. letter, Chapped Hands. Chilblains,
Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positive,
ly cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t Is
guaranteed TO give perfect satisfaction or
money REFUNDED. Price rs cents pap box,
Forsaie BY H. 9. Williams. II, 4 Bro
Mar. 26.ly,
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-04-23

A negro woman, who was adaugh-
the of a king, saw Washington at
Albany n. T., in 1898, was heir to
a large estate, weighed 405 pounds,
and had begun to turn white in
patches, died in Buffalo the other
day at the age Of 104.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-04-23

A FLUTE in Hedgesville has been
used by five generations and is said to
be hundred and fifty years old. The
mills ofthe gods grind slowly, but some
|day righteous vengeance will over
take that flute.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-04-23

A cow belonging to W. G. Brown
ing, of East Greenwich, r. L., find
ing no hay in her stall the other
morning, climbed up fourteen steps
to the loft and helped herself. 1t
took carpenter and an inclined
plane to get her down.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-04-23

There is rich man in the Black
Hills, says the Bismarck Times, who
dates the beginning of his fortune
from the day when he sold his VIE
for $4,000.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-28
Overworked by Alcohol.

In DR.. B. W. Richardson's recent
Cantor lectures on "Animal Me-
chanics. s." speaking of the mechanism
of the heart, he described the number
of the pulsations of the heart in differ
ent animals-in fish, frog, bird, rabbit,
cat dog, sheep, horse-and made few
comments on the remarkable slowness
of the heart-forty strokes per minute
in the horse. Then the number of pull
Stations in man at various periods of
life, and at different levels, from the
level of the sea up to 1000 feet above
sea level, was brought under review,
and was followed by computation of
the average work performed by the
heart in healthy adult man. The
work was traced out by the minute,
the hour and the day, and was shown
to equal the feat of raising five tons
four cwt. one foot per hour, or 125 tons
in twenty-four hours. The excess of
this work under alcohol in varying
quantities formed a corollary to the
history of the work of the heart, Parkes'
calculation showing an excess of TWEEN
ty-four foot tons from the inhibition of
eight fluid ounces of alcoholic Y.
ObseTre9..
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-28
How to Make Invisible Ink.

Invisible ink is made of several SUBJ
stances, but the most curious known IS
that made from cobalt. 1t is very
remarkable phenomenon that this ink
may be made to disappear and reap
pear at pleasure. This property is pc
culiar to inks obtained from cobalt, for
all the other kinds are at first invisible
until some substance has been applied
to make them appear; but when once
they have appeared, they remain. To
prepare this ink, take zafre and dis
solve it in nitro-muriatic acid till the
acid extracts from it the metallic part
of the cobalt, which communicates to
the zaffre a blue color; then dilute the
solution, which is very acrid, with
common water. If you write with this
liquid on paper, the characters will be
invisible; but when exposed to suffi-
cient degree of heat they will become
green. When the paper has cooled
they viii disappear. Observe. if the
paper be too much heated they will not
disappear at all. Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-28
NANCY COWS.
A Very Simple Remedy Which Has Eff
fected a Number of Cures.

A Very Simple Remedy Which Has Eff
fected Il Number of Cures.
This disease is q disgrace on any
farm, and no farmer OF breeder will
permit it to remain long unattended
to. Mango, scab or scarf is accom-
panied by q low condition of the sys-
TEN, induced by neglect, low feeding
and want of cleanliness, and the symp-
toms are readily distinguishablc. The
skin attains harsh, dry appearance,
and seems to have grown fast to the
flesh. The hair is dull and dead in
appearance, while patches are worn off
in different parts of the body, the Itch
ing produced by the disease causing
the animal to violently scratch herself
against every thing which comes in her
way, frequently becoming so despcr-
ate as to scratch until the skin blceds
badly. The first step in effecting a
cure is to transfer into clearly quar-
tiers, to adopt a better system of feed
ing and then to apply local remedies.
A very simple remedy, and one which
unusually affects cure, is the applica-
ton of crude coal oil, or even the COM
mon coal oil sold in the stores, a couple
of applications, about ten days apart,
generally being sufficient. A salve or
ointment, made of equal parts of dow-
ers of sulphur and powdered elecam-
pane root, mixed with hogs lard, is
very soothing, and in mild cases may
effect a cure; but in more pronounced
cases, oil of vitriol and hogs lard,
mixed in the proportion of one ounce
OF the former to eight ounces of the
latter, is used. 1t is better to wash the
animal thoroughly with warm water
and soap, and dry well before each APP
plication of these ointments, and to
keep the affected animal separate from
the rest of the herd until cured. AS a
constipated condition generally accom-
panies this disease, gentle laxatives
should be administered when such is
the case. In the two or three cases
coming under our immediate notice,
we have effected cure with the RENE
dy first named.-Americdn Agricultxr-
ief
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-28

and nerve paralyzers Thus far we have found
that alcohol appears to possess some of the
true properties OF food; that if we may Judge
Dy such indications as its chemical nature and
Its origin, it is to animal life more like an ash
than like food that unlike food 1t is Quickly
eliminated through many channels, and that
Wnlle retained in the tissue it retains life action
IN that 1t slows the process Of cell growth and
retards tissue change; that in fact it suspends
lie instead OF supporting it, and that the study
OF It's poisonous effects shows that its influence
Is all IN the direction of death-producing rather
IMAM hIe-glvlng. In short, it is poisoner of
living tissue, and preserver Of dead tissue.
Alcohol is known to reduce the tempera-
ture or bodily heat, except in those who are
habituated to it. 1t lessons the oxygen bearing
power OF the red corpuscles, and retards tho
elimination OF carbonic acid gas. 1t retards
metabolism-tissue change, nutritious elimina-
ton. The weight of evidence tends to show
that it diminishes the excretion OF urea.
Locally, 1t irritates the mucous membrane i'm
pairs the stomach's digestion, increases the
rapldlty of the hearts action Shortens the
period OF the hearts rest, paraIyzes the mi
mute blood vessels, and an@sthetizes or be-
numbs brain and nerve tissue. 1t produces
irritation, congestion, and revulsion wherever
1t strikes. 1t hardens the connective tissue
which goes to make up the structure of the
tissue-that is, the active, living cellular SUBJ
stance which in every organ really attends to
or carries on the process of life"
1t is classed as a medicine with am
monia. Would any one take ammonia
for a steady drink? There is not one
of its medical uses but that there is a
better remedy now at the command of
physician. Almost the only use that
is made of it in medicine is as a stimu-
liant of the hearts action. Nitro
glycerine does the work better, and
leaves no reaction like alcohol. The
main features of alcohol's action are
those of a poison. 1t deranges func-
tons, stops healthful activity, para
lyzes, deadens and destroys. 1t is
poison, and more baneful than any
other poison, because it comes to a man
disguised in beer, wine and stronger
liquors. Toledo Blade.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-28
Teaching the Young Temperance.

The cry for temperance teaching i S
the echo of Gods primordial decree,
LET there be lightr' 1t is the plead
ing of the millions of the children of the
land, beseeching that they may not be
sent naked, without shield or armor,
into the battle of life to contend against
odds not only with the open and dis
closed enemy, but also with those chat
lie in ambush and assail them in dis
guise. 1t is the appeal of hundreds OF
thousands of the noblest and puresC
women of the land in behalf of their
homes, their offspring, their affairs and
their firesides. 1t is the plea of the
home, the church and the school COM
bined that if our tender ones and our
helpless ones must run the gauntlet of
the army of alcohol they may at least
be forewarned and upon guard against
the lurking danger.-Byron McCutch-
con, in Journal of Education.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-28
TROPICAL FRUITS.
Strange Edibles from Remote Places for
Sale in the City Markets.

Strange Edibles from Remote Places for
Sale in the City Markets.
Those who follow the good old
fashioned custom and do their own
marketing see a good many fruits that
| are not grown in this country. The
banana, orange, lemon and pineapple
might almost be termed naturalized, so
common have they become. But there
are other fruits which are so very fu-
eign that we have no English names
for them. There is the zapotes, for ex-
ample, which grows in Mexico, South
America and the West Indies. The
flavor of this fruits is sweet and pleas
ant. No care is required to bring it to
maturity. 1t is as wild as the acorn,
though more toothsome. Another for
eign fruit is the caimitos, which grows
on tree as large as our apple tree.
This is served for dessert and has a
mildly tart flavor. From Peru comes
the chirimoyas. Larger than the APP
pie is the manages. This has rough
skin and a pink interior, and is coarse
in flavor. In shape it resembles some
what the pumpkin. Widely known is
guava jelly, which is made from the
guava fruit, which grows wild, and is
much like the apple in firmness, al
though resembling in appearance the
apricot. With most Northerners it is
an acquired taste, being considered at
first rather too sweet Of the grape
fruit class is the fruta bomba. The
outer covering of this is quite bitter
and must be removed from the pulp,
which is most delicious.
By the various names of aguacates,
avagodo pear and alligator pear is
known peculiar fruit, shaped like a
large pear and weighing sometimes as
much as three pounds. The shell is
smooth and tough. In the center is a
large pit about as hard as horse
chestnut. A curious thing about the
pit is the fact that it will make a
brownish mark, which is indelibe.
This avagodo pear is also called
subaltern's butter, for which it makes
an excellent substitute. It is made
into a salad in the West Indies and is a
popular dish, being much affected by
the soldiers. The mango, or West
India peach, stands very high among
tropical fruits. 1t has a smooth skin
and is of brilliant hues, green, gold
and crimson. There is at first slight
suggestion of turpentine in its flavor
but to this one soon becomes accus-
toned and all find it most delightful
fruit.
OF course the orange and banana
come to us in the greatest perfection.
They can be plucked green and will
ripen on the voyage, which can not be
done with the pineapple. Larger than
the banana is the plantain, which it re-
sembles. In southern countries it is
much used for cooking purposes, being
baked or fried like our apples, and is a
staple article of food. The cassava, or
bread fruit, is not often imported.
From this is made cassava bread, the
chief food of the poorer classes. The
yucca and the yam are roots of the po-
tato variety, much esteemed by the
negroes. In their season many of these
fruits may be purchased in New York.
and the demand for them is increasing.
N. Y. Nail and Express.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-28
TEMPERANCE COFFEE-HOUSES.
A Movement Intended to Provide Substi-
tutes for the Omnipresent Saloon.

A Movement Intended to Provide Substi-
tutes for the Omnipresent Saloon.
Incorporation papers have been taken
out in Chicago to establish cooperative
temperance coffee-houses similar to
those running in England, the object
being to supplant the liquor-saloon
with saloons where liquors are not sold,
but where the concert and the free
lunch still remain. Coffee and tea are
to be the substitutes for beer and
whisky. The chief movers in the es-
adjustment of these institutions are
John Laurie, A. Gordon Murray and
George X. Tompkins, and the move
ment is Endorsed by ministers, temper
ance-workers and business men.
"Our object" sid Mr.. Laurie, ais
to have all tire attractions of the saloon
with the exception of the liquors. Our
license is for the State, and we intend
to fix up suitable places in all parts of
the State. We will furnish them richly
not TOO richly, but enough to make
the places acknowledgements newspa-
pers and perhaps pool and billiard
tables. There are thousands of young
men who, not knowing how to spend
the evening, drop into saloon. In
stead of doing this they will be able to
come into one of our places, drop into
lounge, and read paper; sip cup
of coffee and eat little free lunch or
butter and rolls, or he can get a very
good meal to order at a moderate
price. Families can come and
spend an evening in drinking coffee
and listening to good music. The
meal tickets we will issue will be good
in any part of the State. So you see
person who comes in and simply buys
a cup of coffee has the liberty of the
house. The surroundings WELD pow
erful influence over him, and he will
never 60 into liquor store again. 1t
is not movement by Prohibitionists,
but the intention is to press Temper
ance on our customers without making
it obnoxious to them. We do not in
tend to run charitable institution, but
to make it pay the shareholders and be
a benefit to the public. The coffee
house will be open all night if neces-
sary. The movement has been very
successful in Great Britain, and I see
that New York is trying it, and 1 think
that inside of two years we will have
these coffee-houses all over the city.
Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-28

have come here. Marion. It might
compromise YOU
Compromise me with nv future
husband? See, Chester and she held
up the hand on which cleaned the
ring, Il have never accepted my free
DOM
My own brave girl he said, his
voice softening even while he girded
himself up for the strength of which
he stood in such need. ssBut the
heaven you open for me can not be.
| am foreman of the works where you
saw me to-day, Marion. My knowl-
edge and love Of machinery stood me
in good stead. | heard of this opening
and secured it. To-day I was adjust
ing some difficult piece of work
dared not to trust to any workman. | am
in receipt of a liberal salary, which I
am laying aside, dear, living as poorly
as can, hoping one day TO buy an
interest in the business. One or two
Improvements have made are rapidly
attaining me the goal, but it is still far
off. | can not ask you to wait, nor to
forget the years of labor which have
helped me to reach it.
Il have waited already too long, Ches-
ter she whispered. I'm ready now
to become your wife"
His face grew deadly white.
''Oh, Chester" she said, when
have SO much money why are you so
cruel and so proud?"
81 can not go back to life of ease
and dependence" he answered, "eyen
with you, dear love, to brighten it.
Bless you for coming to me, Marioni
Bless you for showing me all a noble
woman can be! The memory of this
hour will tighten all the future years.
Chester, you do not understand me-"
she persisted. 81 will forget that have
a single penny in the world except
what you give me. will share what
ever home you offer me-eyen this.
For better, for worse, darling, we
pledged ourselves as sacredly as though
we stood before Gods altar. In Gods
sight | am your wife. Iclaim my right
to share your dark days as well as those
on which the sun of prosperity may
shine"
He strove to answer, but his voice
broke. She had conquered, but,
woman-like, she gave him the glory of
her victory as she sobbed out her hap
piness upon his heart.
A month later there was quiet we'd
ding, at which there were neither flow
ers norbridesmaids nor music; but Mar
ion Willoughby missed nothing. 1t was
only after the ceremony had been per-
formed that Chester showed her doc
ument which had been his wedding
gift from the firm he had served so
faithfully, and which admitted him as
Junior partner from that date. But she
smiled half sadly as she looked at it
through mist of tears.
"You said once, DEAR" she whis-
pered, "that flowers to liveneeded sun
light. My darling, 1 had not then
made the wonderful discovery that love
made sunlight everywhere. With your
heart for my home, be its outward
adornment what it WILL, envy no King
his palace or Queen her throne. TO
ledo Blade.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-28
Preservation of Dead Bodies.

The body of Edward l., who died in
1907, was found not decayed 1853 years
subsequently. The body of Canute,
who died in 1917, was found fresh in
l1t6. Those of William the Conqueror
and his wife We're perfect in 1922. In
1869 three Roman soldiers. in the dress
OF their country, fully equipped with
arms. were dug out of peat mass
near Aberdeen. They were quite fresh
and plump after lapse of about 1000
years. Lady Kilsyth and her infant
son, who were embalmed in III, eighty
years later were so thoroughly pre-
served as to have an almost life
like appearance. GGilard's Medical
Monthly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-28
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

Make it pleasant "At Home on the
Farm
The frost will pulverize the clods.
Il possible. should the ground thaw
during the winter, plow it and leave
the burrows rough.-Troy Times.
1t is not too soon to make the
frames for the hot-beds and get every
thing ready. Save the manure for
that purpose, which should be fresh
and free from coarse litter.-Albaag
Journal.
Apple filling for cake: One large
or two small apples pared and grated,
the juice and grated rind of one lemon,
one-half cap of sugar and small piece
of butter. Boil five minutes. The
Household.
1t is not best to utilize trees as sup
ports for grape vines. Not only does
the vine completely shade the trees, but
it becomes difficult to gather the grapes,
while pruning is almost impossible.
Western Rural
Stock, as a rule, are naturally clean
and will not lie down to rest in ma
nure pile if more clearly and COM
Portable quarters are provided, and we
all know that cleanliness is conducive
to health. -Prairie Farmer.
There is no reason why the wire
fences of poultry yards and around the
fields should not be used for grape
vines. Quite large amount of such
fruit could thus be economically grown,
and the fences would not be injured in
so doing.-Field and Farm.
1t is wrong not to sweep q carpet
thoroughly before removing from the
floor. A little soap bark or benzine
will remove stains, but unless of ink or
similar chemicals, hot soapsuds and a
flannel cloth are best, and may be used
with impunity on the finest and newest
carpet. Exchange.
The fattening value of grains de-
penn. largely upon the free oil or fat
contained in them, with their sugar,
starch, etc. One per cent. of oil is con-
sidered equal to more than two per
cent. of sugar and starch. At these es-
Inmates sixty-nine pounds of corn equal
seyenty-eight pounds of barley, but the
barley is richer in albuminoids, and is
therefore more valuable than corn for
the development of fiesh.-N. Y. Irib-
u1ee.
Boiled Cup Custard: Beat the eggs
well with sugar, strain through a gauze
sieve into pitcher, add milk to your
taste and fiavoring. Put the pitcher in
a vessel of boiling water, stir the sus-
tard until it is like cream, take off the
fire and stir until the steam ceases. The
custard must not be so thick hot as you
wish it when cold. Custard made in
this way will be as smooth as thick
cream and without taste of scorch.
You can froth white of egg for the tops
of custards.-Bosto7o Bulletin.
Flannel Cakes: One quart Of milk,
one cup of corn meal and nearly three
OF Hour, half cake OF yeast, stirred in
half cup of warm water, one large cup
OF boiling water, one teaspoonful of
salt, one tcaspoonful of molasses, bit of
soda the size of pea in the milk.
Scald the meal with the boiling water,
stir in the milk and strain through
colander, add flour and yeast and let it
rise until morning, beat in salt and mo-
lasses, and when the batter is smooth
and light bake on griddle. They are
very nice.-Boston Budget.